"B-Boring?"
At that moment, even Machida Koji could not help but freeze.
Not just Machida Koji—everyone else was equally astonished.
Once he recovered, regardless of the others, Machida Koji was the first to glare furiously at Fang Li.
"Y-You... are you insulting Class A?"
Machida Koji shouted angrily.
It was not merely because Katsuragi Kohei's strategy had been dismissed so completely. It was also because Fang Li had given such an assessment to the strategy he himself had proposed in the Rabbit Group, leaving him humiliated and enraged.
Yet Fang Li showed not the slightest reaction to Machida Koji's anger. Instead, he looked at him with something like pity.
That pity was not directed solely at Machida Koji, but also at Katsuragi Kohei—and at all of Class A.
"Have you still not realized it?" Fang Li said calmly. "The strategy Katsuragi proposed has a fatal flaw."
Those words made everyone present exchange looks.
"A... a fatal flaw?"
Machida Koji was stunned for a moment before immediately retorting.
"Impossible! Katsuragi's strategy is perfect!"
Such was Katsuragi Kohei's prestige, as well as the trust the members of the Katsuragi Faction placed in him.
Unfortunately, Machida Koji failed to notice that Morishige Takuro of the Sakayanagi Faction was looking at him mockingly from beside him.
"Perfect?" Fang Li said with a faint smile. "The perfection you mean would not happen to be the kind Katsuragi used on the deserted island, the kind Ryuen trampled all over, would it?"
"Ugh..."
Machida Koji immediately fell silent.
But Fang Li continued speaking.
"Certainly, Katsuragi's strategy can work. As long as the Favored Ones are not found in the end, everyone gains the same result." Fang Li's tone was exceedingly calm. "But that is only if the Favored Ones are not found, isn't it?"
That was right.